This eighth
disc in the set, which is totally devoted to Prophecies
of Nostradamus, starts out by completing the stereo
coverage of the film found on the previous CD. As before,
these are broken up from their original two track presentation
into more reasonable runtimes, although a couple of these
cues have some fairly sudden transitions on account of
it. After these ten tracks, the disc moves on to cover
the monaural score for the movie. Unsurprisingly, the
coverage of the theatrical score is the same as VAP's
release in 1996, containing 33 themes from the movie.
Sadly, this set lacks the six bonus tracks on the earlier
VAP CD, foregoing the alternate take of the "Bar
Lesson" and all of the non-synthesized cues. This
is especially unfortunate as most of those tracks were
fairly interesting to listen to next to the regular versions;
however, if it's a choice between those six tracks and
the complete stereo release, the choice is easy as the
LP stuff breathes a lot more life into the music with
the multi-channel presentation while also being noticeable
distinct from the stuff that was used in the movie. The
coverage of the movie continues on the ninth disc with
the two record single tracks.